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On 13 March 1804, Thomas Malthus married Harriet Eckersall, the eldest daughter of his first cousins John and Catherine Eckersall, who lived near Bath. Harriet became well-known at Haileybury College for hosting gatherings of notable scientists; eleven years younger than Thomas, she survived him by thirty years, remarrying after his death.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knowlton |first1=Charles |last2=Besant |first2=Annie |editor1-last=Chandrasekhar |editor1-first=S |title=Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |pages=4–6}}</ref>
The couple had a son, Henry, and two daughters, Emily and Lucille. Henry, the eldest, became vicar of [[Effingham, Surrey]] in 1835 and of [[Donnington, West Sussex|Donnington, Sussex]] in 1837; he married Sofia Otter (1807–1889), daughter of Bishop [[William Otter]] and died in August 1882, aged 76. Emily, the middle child, died in 1885, outliving her parents and siblings. Lucille, the youngest, died unmarried and childless in 1825,
== ''An Essay on the Principle of Population'' ==
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